(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”

He said to them, “You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

If the person is from sixty years old and older, if he is a male the conversion value is fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Among this army were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target.

The neighbor women named him, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. Now he became the father of Jesse – David’s father!

He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels.

They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.